Household preparedness motivation in lahar hazard zones: assessing the adoption of preparedness behaviors among laypeople and response professionals in communities downstream from Mount Baker and Glacier Peak (USA) volcanoes

Table 3 Average preparedness score of respondents by personal responsibility level

		Dependent variable: CP score
Independent variable	Respondents	Mean	Standard deviation	t-value	p-value
Respondent feels “very responsible” for their own protection and provision of resources:	n = 456			3.16 (103)	0.002
Yes	83%	0.06	0.75
No ^a	17%	−0.26	0.80

^a Includes responses of 2, 3, and 4. None of the respondents selected 1, or “not responsible”

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